AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, April 20, 2018 03:30:04

Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting

• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• April 14-15, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1138

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

• Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, I
  Room 301, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
  Michael Hull, University of Florida
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups.
    Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
    Timothy Riley, Cornell University
    (1138-20-145)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalizations of quasiconvexity in a word-hyperbolic group.
    Heejoung Kim*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1138-20-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On strongly quasiconvex subgroups.
    Hung Cong Tran*, The University of Georgia
    (1138-20-230)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Distortion of surfaces in $3$--manifolds.
    Hoang Thanh Nguyen*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1138-20-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Obstructions to Riemannian smoothings of locally CAT(0) manifolds.
    Bakul Sathaye*, The Ohio State University
    (1138-20-296)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Diffeomorphism groups of critical regularity.
    Sang-hyun Kim, Seoul National University
    Thomas Koberda*, University of Virginia
    (1138-20-34)
• Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, II
  Room 301, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
  Michael Hull, University of Florida
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Random subgroups of acylindrical groups.
    Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
    Alessandro Sisto, ETH
    (1138-20-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A dynamical characterization of acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
    Bin Sun*, Vanderbilt University
    (1138-20-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $\mathcal{H} -$ and $\mathcal{AH} -$ accessibility.
    Carolyn Abbott, UC Berkeley
    Sahana H Balasubramanya*, Vanderbilt University
    Denis Osin, vanderbilt University
    (1138-20-136)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Property $P_{naive}$ for acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
    Carolyn R Abbott*, University of California, Berkeley
    Francois Dahmani, University of Grenoble, Alpes
    (1138-20-238)
• Sunday April 15, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, III
  Room 301, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
  Michael Hull, University of Florida
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of Bowditch boundaries.
    Jason F Manning*, Cornell University
    Oliver Wang, Cornell University
    (1138-20-236)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Relatively hyperbolic groups with boundary a $2$-sphere.
    Bena Tshishiku*, Harvard University
    Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
    (1138-20-25)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Boundaries and Splittings of CAT(0) Groups.
    Kim E Ruane*, Tufts University
    Chris Hruska, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (1138-20-339)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graphs of groups and corresponding splittings of spaces.
    G Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Kim Ruane, Tufts University
    (1138-20-345)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Proper homotopy types and Z-boundaries of spaces admitting geometric group actions.
    Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Molly A Moran, Colorado College
    (1138-57-130)
• Sunday April 15, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, IV
  Room 301, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
  Michael Hull, University of Florida
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Normal generators for mapping class groups are abundant.
    Justin Lanier*, Georgia Tech
    Dan Margalit, Georgia Tech
    (1138-20-244)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Coarse geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups.
    Ivan Levcovitz*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1138-57-290)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Outer automorphism groups of right-angled Coxeter groups.
    Tim Susse*, Bard College at Simon's Rock
    Andrew Sale, Cornell University
    (1138-20-187)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Thermodynamic metrics for moduli of graphs.
    Tarik Aougab*, Providence
    Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
    Yo'av Rieck, University of Arkansas
    (1138-20-278)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A uniform McCarthy-type theorem for linearly growing outer automorphisms of a free group.
    Edgar A. Bering IV*, Temple University
    (1138-20-84)